Entertainment Podium

Download Microsoft Silverlight 2!

Microsoft announced that its all new Silverlight 2 will be available for download from the internet, begin Tuesday. The new Silverlight 2 boasts a lot of tweaks compared to the previous version, that include improved cross platform support, deep zoom technology and digital rights management technology.The Silverlight, being a relative new comer into the media player market, expects to largely increase its market penetration with this subsequent version. Silverlight’s penetration in the US has surged in the past few months thanks to the Olympics!

If you are already using Silverlight 2 beta or the earlier version, you would be automatically upgraded to Silverlight 2

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The New XBOX Live Experience!

Microsoft unveiled the all new star studded XBOX Live Experience! Listen up all you gaming freaks out there, it MIGHT be launched sometime in November. The new XBOX appeals to the aesthetics like no gaming console has ever delivered before. When you are amazed by the ingenious and almost 3D cascade provided by the iPOD, the picture perfect horizontal cascading rendered by the XBOX will mesmerize you!

With a wide range of avatars that you can choose from, this latest gadget is definitely a stiff competitor for the Sonys and the Nintendos. An interesting new feature is called “Parties”. Here you can text or chat with your fellow gamers and friends online, browse their profiles and also look into the games being played by them!

With Microsoft lowering the price of the basic model of the XBOX to $199, which it claims to have significantly increased sales, the to-be-launched version is anticipated to be very reasonably priced. All that you have to do is just wait to grab your brand new XBOX Live Experience!

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